History News Service

Welcome to Viewpoints. Viewpoints is the archive of opinion pieces distributed through the History News Service. These essays have appeared in newspapers around the country.

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Bronze statue of Sir William Blackstone.
Back to the 17th Century: Money and Political Speech
map of Yugoslavia
What Victory in Yugoslavia May Mean for Future Wars
Senator J. William Fulbright in 1966.
Advice from the Past about Yugoslavia
Chinese tanks in Beijing in 1989
Honoring China’s June 4th Martyrs
A map showing China and the United States
Another Cold War? China This Time?
Photo of Tiananmen Square from 2007.
Bombings, Blood Debts, and Mutual Suspicion
Slobodan Milosevic, just after signing the Dayton Agreement
Lessons from the Holocaust Are Relevant to the Crisis in Kosovo
The floor seal of the Central Intelligence Agency
Getting Others to Fight Our Wars
Print of "The Epiphany of the New Antichrist" by Romeyn de Hooghe.
The Myth of the Jewish Antichrist: Falwell Stumbles Badly
Mr. Professor by Joan Carlsson, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
Needed: A New Deal for Academics
Fidel Castro in 1959
Easing Up on Cuba
Floor proceedings of the U.S. Senate, in session during the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton
Uneasy Lies the Head that Sleeps in the White House
Barry Goldwater in 1964.
The History of the “Right Wing Conspiracy”
A glass negative of Warren G. Harding.
Sex Scandals and U.S. History
Image of a large turkey on a postcard from the early 1900s.
The First “First Thanksgiving”
President Bill Clinton in 1999.
History of Sixth-Year Elections Bodes Well for Democrats
President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton in 1993.
Why Clinton Will Survive
A photo of the Great Synagogue of Rome.
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
New York stock market index from 1926 to 1939
Can the Global Crisis of the Nineties Lead to Another Great Depression?
Omagh, Northern Ireland in 2001.
Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics
A photo of Helmut Kohl in1987.
Germany After Kohl
Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.
President’s Commission on Race a Failure
Portrait of Neville Chamberlain, who was the Prime Minister of United Kingdom during the early months of World War II.
Lessons of Munich
General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945.
Second-Guessing Hiroshima?